[The Attache by Thomas Chandler Haliburton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Attache CHAPTER VIII 4/18
Those whom we did hear, made a most wretched exhibition.
About one o'clock, the adjournment took place, and we returned, fatigued and disappointed. "Did you ever see the beat of that, Squire ?" said Mr.Slick.
"Don't that take the rag off quite? Cuss them fellers that spoke, they are wuss than assembly men, hang me if they aint; and _they_ aint fit to tend a bear trap, for they'd be sure to catch themselves, if they did, in their own pit-fall. "Did you hear that Irishman a latherin' away with both arms, as if he was tryin' to thrash out wheat, and see how bothered he looked, as if he couldn't find nothin' but dust and chaff in the straw? Well, that critter was agin the Bill, in course, and Irish like, used every argument in favour of it.
Like a pig swimmin' agin stream, every time he struck out, he was a cuttin' of his own throat.
He then blob blob blobbered, and gog gog goggled, till he choked with words and passion, and then sot down. "Then that English Radical feller, that spoke with great voice, and little sense.
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